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Hodges went into World War I as a captain, came out with a fine record and a temporary lieutenant colonelcy. In the Meuse-Argonne offensive he had won the Distinguished Service Cross by leading his infantrymen in a crossing of the Meuse, by hanging on and protecting his cut-off position while others got across. His tenacity under fire turned a scouting mission into his brigade's offensive spearhead...
...have been softened by rocket planes and concentrated bombing, but the weather was too bad. The infantry had to attack the hard way. Two weeks ago doughboys crossed the moat and scaled the sides of the fort, then were driven back by the Germans. Last week they tried again. Infantrymen fought their way into the fort through phosphorus and smokebomb clouds, tried to burn out its occupants with blazing oil. The Americans, clinging to the top, could hear the Germans scurry through the tunnels below, but they noted no sag in the defense, which went on from lower levels...
...British forces were small. They were a section of the newly formed Land Forces of the Adriatic under General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's Mediterranean command; included paratroopers, commandos, infantrymen, engineers and an R.A.F. regiment. The two Greek guerrilla forces -E.D.E.S. and E.L.A.S. -had promised cooperation. Local commander was the 26-year-old Earl Jellicoe, son of the British commander at Jutland in World War I. Young Jellicoe went in as a major, was promoted to a lieutenant colonel four days later...
...where he had the troops he fought fiercely. At points the going was worse for the Americans than it had been back on the Norman beaches. At one point the Germans used a "psychological tactic" borrowed from the eastern front-a shoulder-to-shoulder frontal assault by screaming, yelling infantrymen. The Indian-silent G.I. reaction: mow 'em down...
...fault to which Chinese and U.S. soldiers are especially prone. The Chinese like to indulge "the vicious habit" of self-dramatization, and flattery of their superiors. But, "of the many exaggerated stories I have heard in seven years . . . none can surpass those told by American pilots and infantrymen...